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The honourable member has proved himself a true prophet in all he has said on the subject, and though it may suit some captious listeners to decry all statements that do not immediately meet their views, the test of time has shown how valid were the opinions ex pressed by Mr. LINDSAY, and corroborated by all wato took a comprehensive view of the great Ame •rican question. Mr. LINDSAY predicted that the Uaion would never be restored, and in this he was borne cut by the most astute of American politi ciamt, and the szquel will most assuredly verify the prediction. The honourable member, in his clear and comprehensive address, showed to his hearers the fallacy of the notions entertained by the North from the outset of the affdir. He believed that the " rebellion," as they emphatically termed it, would be soon put down, and with this conviction went to war, and with what results all know. This is certainly an instance of the mistakes which men make who are blinded by their own perversity, and so self-opinionated that they will not see the reason of unpalatable truths. Doubtless the Northern part of the combatants really felt convinced that they would soon put down and crush out the revolt, and that in less than a year they would have suc cessfully disposed of all inimical proceedings. They had not the foresight to take note of the height and depth of the resolve which animated and ac tuated their opponents, .the deeply rooted con viction—which was firmly fixed in their minds—that the time had come for them to be free from the gallieg bondage they had so long borne. A want of extensive know ledge of this sort is fatal to those who would grapple with difficult and dangerous tasks, and the Washington Government have made a lamentable failure in their attempt to rush at conclusions, and believe that they have power to put down all oppo teat; without listening to the dictates of right or the oak s of reason. LINDSAY forcibly showed that the North are not really in earnest in their condi maation of Slavery. Had they really and truly desired its extinction as an Institution from their soil, they would have taken matters up very ditf gently, and adopted very contrary measures to thos , ) which they have employed. He explained that if the North wished to put a period to the prat tiro of Slavery they would have ended the Fugitive Slave Law , and then the " oppressed have found his slave would way across the frontier to the land of freedom." Such a teat as this is the only way to judge rightly of th e purity of men's motives, and to discover the real n ature of their assertions, This cry of Slavery has been a gra n d catch for the supporters of the North, but i ts efficacy is now pretty well departed, and it will soon be of no use to attempt trying its powers to th e most unenlightened and inexperienced assembly. Experience has taught, with its unerring wisdom, that no remote idea of such a thing ever actuated the Federate in the prosecution of the war. The notion e - ,cited some people, and it was as well to take adv antage of the chance that presented itself so for tuitously, tr us gaining the support and ccun'amance of those who would have blushed to be associated with the belligerents, had they known the manner in which the warfare 'was to be prosecuted. It is a melancholy thing to coat mplate the loss of life and the great waste of property which have been sacrificed to the prosecu tion of this struggle. All war is costly, and oftero after the shortest and most economical conflict 'the contending parties have had ample cause to repent at leisuie of the extremities into which they plunged in haste, but the details of this transatlantic feud are fearful to picture and overwhelming to con template. When we hear of the position of the North, the men called forth, the sums raised to meet the expenses, it is strange to consider that so far from having at all accomplished their object they are as far off as ever, and further indeed, since they must feel the conviction of their failure steal ing upon them. Mr. LINCOLN has called out troops in almost fabulous numbers, but to no purpose— and, as Mr. LINDSAY put it, "the capital of the North seems in greater jeopardy than that of the South." The consequences of this war are deplor able to dwell upon ; they affect the people of Eu rope, while they cruelly injure those of America- The West is now coming to the rescue in America, and condemning the mode of proceeding which has occasioned so many evils, and gained no avail able benefit after all this sacrifice. Mr. LINDSAY animadverted upon the course pursued by our Go vernment throughout this disastrous war; he said very truly, without taking part they might have used their friendly offices in averting the continu ance of the conflict. France was willing to act in uni son with England in the work of mediation, but -her suggestions were unheeded, and we have to regret the consequences. The hon. member for Sander land, in conclusion, made some impressive declara tions regarding his reasons for taking a part in the discussions on this subject. He assured his hearers that he was actuated by goodwill on both sides, and he could not but " sympathise with people who have sprung:from the same land with ourselves, who speak the same language, whose history is oar history, and who worship the same GOD." This speech is an admirable one, for it is free from bitter ness and prejudice, yet it declares the truth in plain and unvarnished terms, and all who would obtain an insight into American affairs cannot do better than peruse it attentively, for it clearly ex■ plains the merits and demerits of the complicated question. The return of the excursion season usually brings with it a plentiful supply of the sensation element. We are continually startled with accounts of dread ful accidents or impressed by narratives cf hair breadth escapes and dangerous delays. Sometimes a year elapses without any catastrophe of magni tude; at other times disasters follow each other in rapid succession, as in the instances of the Clayton Tunnel accident and that which immediately suc ceeded it on the North London Railway. It is happily very seldom that the ace:dents are of such a terrible character, and the effect of the double catastrophe on the public mind was very great. People lost all canfidence in railways, and it was well for the companies that the excursion season was near its close, for, owing to the panic, it was virtually ended by those disasters. The next summer the effects were still felt, and excursionists were few and far between. Happily there has been of late years no similar catass trophe, and the pleasant and healthful cue. tom of snatching a few hours by the seaside or in the woods in the midst of hard work or pressing business is again is full force. This year we are having a complete circle of disasters ; the railway lines taking in turn the unenviable die tinotion. We had tho Esbcm accitltni, which threw such a gloom over the gay doings at Ascot; we had the appalling murder of Mr. BRIGGS on another line, to be followed by an accident, come paratively trifling in its results, but most alarming in its character, at Margate ; and now within the last two days London itself has been startled by an engine turned acrobat. It is worth notice that none of these disasters occurred, properly speak ing, to excursion trains, unless the extra trains in a race week can be reckoned as such. Mr. BRIGGS was assassinated en a short journey of the most ordinary kind, and it must be remembered that no especial blame could attach to either company or driver. The unfortunate system of isolation to which so many individual accidents and annoyances are due, does not belong exclusively to any particular line. Indeed it has been in existence for a good many years without the public seeming sensible of its danger. The same remark applies to that dangerous midnight journey northwards which we have omitted from our list of railway alarms. The unfortunate train at Margate was one of only a few carriages going on its usual track, while the accident at Camden - road Station (again on the unlucky North London), had nothing to do with excursions or excursionists. So that the public need not be startled into abandoning their proposed pleasure trips when danger lies in the ordinary prosecution of daily business as well. It is unde niable that excursion trains have met with a greater proportion of accidents than other trains, but such is not necessarily the case, and there is every pro bability that each successive accident diminishes instead of increasing the chances of misfortune. Wise men would tell us that, according to the doc trine of chances, accidents are less likely to happen in close succession, but it is more satisfactory to trust to an increase of care and vigilance on the part of the officials of the line than to any theoretie cal calculation. We may reasonably suppose that every accident teaches some particular lesson, espe cially where it is, as too often happens, the result of recklessness and negligence, W e cannot sup pose, for instance, that another stationmaster wil dismiss two trains, in rapid succession, telling the first to stop at a certain station, and the second to go on. We can hardly imagine that directions will again be given to suspend the danger signal, or that men will be kept at work for eighteen or twenty hour 3 in succession, as was the case in one of the most frightful accidents of our time. All these lessons are learnt at heavy cost by the Companies, who pay dearly in hard coin, as well as suffering in public estimation, not always deservedly. The actual expense of remedying the accident is the least part, though that of course is sometimes at tended with serious expense. But the public have a rig lit to expect that every possible provision will be made for their safety, and if the companies propose to combine profit for themselves with pleasure and convenience to the public, they are bound to take extra precautions instead of --- diminishing their usual care. They are left the nn• controlled management of their own affairs; they are free to fix what prices they charge, what salaries they give; they arrange their own hours of departure, arrival, and the like, and therefore the responsibility rests exclusively with them. It is becoming doubly necessary that all due care should be taken now that railways are intersecting our streets, borrowing underneath our highways, so that the most resolute pedestrian cannot escape their dangers. An accident occurring in the midst of our densely populated metropolis would probably THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1864. produce most disastrous consequences, when in green country lanes it might do little or no injury. The explosion of the engine at Camden-road on Tuesds.y last might have been attended with very serious consequences, not only to the travellers by the train itself, who had a most fortunate escape, belt to the foot passengers in Randolph-street. The train was preparing to leave the station, and im mediately it does so it has to cross a bridge Over a little street. The fire-box exploded, the engine was blown upwards and forwards so high into the air that the telegraph lines, some 10 or lo feet above, were beckon, and then turning completely round in its descent, the engine carrying with it a lirge quantity of the stone coping of the bridge, went down into Randolph -street. Had such en accident happened on some of the bridges crossing over different parts of London instead of over a little quiet by-street, what would have been the conse quences ? The very thing that has caused so many accidents—the weakness of the coupling chains— proved in this instance the safety of the passengers, for had not the chain snapped when the engine bounded forward they must have been also preci pitated into the street below. Let us hope that this will be the least of this summer's disasters, and that henceforth increased care may ensure increased safety. LATEST INTILLIGENCE [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. LIMOGES, AUG, 18. The number of houses destroyed here in the Brea fire is estimated at 200. The cause of the conflagration is unknown. The King of Spain arrived at St. Cioud last night about nine. After the banquet at St. Sebastian, the King continued his journey to France, and arrived at Bordeaux at nine on Monday night. ,He was received at the railway station by Count de Boa vile, Prefect of the Gironde, the general command ing the military division, the mayor, the mur-icipa.l council, and all the authorittea of the city and de partment. His Mjssty was accompanied by M. de Isturitz, the Spanish ambassador; Gen. de Wanbert de Geniis, aide-de-camp to the emperor; Baron Tascher de la Pagerie, Maio:lel de Logis of the Palace; and Viscount de Lafernere, Imperial Chamberlain, who had gone to receive the King at the frontier. His 44iesty proceeded at once to the prefecture, wliere apartment s h a d b e en pre pared for hirl, and afterwards held a reception in the Grad Salon, and the evening terminates by a grad supper of 50 covers. The King left Bordeaux yesterday morning for Paris at half-past eight, and was accompanied to the station with the same cere monial as on his arrival. On reaching the entrance to the Park of St. Cloud, the King was received by the Emperor in person ; whilst at the foot of the grind staircase of the palace the Royal visitor found the Empress and the Prince Imperial, attended by the Prince and Princess Lucien Murat, Prince and Princess Joachim Murat, and Princess Anne Murat. The grand officers of the , Crown, the Marshal Commanding-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard, the Adjutant-General of the Palace, the Grand Mistress of the Empress, the Gouveinante of the children of France, the Lady of Honour of the Empress, and the officers and ladies of their M.jesty's Household were also there, and had the honour of being presented to his Catholic Majesty. Too King, before retiring to his apart- , ments, presented the officers of his suite to their Imperial Majesties. The Princess Mathilde, being indisposed, was unable to be at the Palace of Saint Cloud at the time of the King's arrival. The Emperor has received replies from the Queen of England and Prince of Wales to the letters noti. fling the birth of Prince Napoleon-Louis-Joseph- Jerome. BOURSE, Aug. 17.--No material change has taken place in this market in prices or in the amount of business doing. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 50c., and Mobilier 1,035 f. Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market became rather heavy towards the close, and left off as follows: 4I per Cents .. 04 50 Do. end month.... Italian Loan 6B 25 Do. end month 6B 40 Ditto Threes — New Mexican 1.198 i ►Et 3 per Cents - 66 35 Do. end month 66 40 Credit M0bi1ier....1025 Do. end m0nth....1023 75 Dank Shares 3375 Amstriau Span6h Threes.. , Florae Pobt •••••• Credit Foncier Roman - Deferred RAIL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans - 893 ~ 893 Northern Lyons and 2.lcditsrranean 93) .. 931 25 Southern Western eastern Sardinian 360 .. 343 75 Austrian Lon , IN. - ..rd North of Spain Saragova 5lO .. 510 Ditto to Barcelona AMERICA. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. The Canadian screw steamer Belgian, Captain Acton, from Qiebec on the 6th inst., arrived here this afternoon, via Londonderry yesterday. Nothing has transpired befere Petersburg subse quent to the late assault. The New ork Times' Army of the Potomac cor respondent says—" In the interview under the flyg of truce the rebel officers admit their loss to be 3,000, and claimed to have taken 936 prisoners. Toe explosion made a cavity of 200 feet long and 95 feet wide." Another despatch says—" The rebels buried their dead on the other side of their line, and carried oft their wounded. They claim to have 1,200 prisoners, including the wounded, in their possession. They state their loss was 800, but this is not credited," The Federal General, Bartlett, and Colonel Mar shall, were in Petersburg, unhurt. A court of inquiry was about to be convened to inquire into the Federal disaster at Petersburg. A New York despatch of the sth says :—" There are good reasons for believing that, the Confederates are mining one of our earthworks in front of Peters burg. Mea:.u7es have been taken which will render operations of that sort futile. A riot occurred in this city to-day between a party of soldiers and negroes, in which two of the soldiers were killed and several wounded. The dwellings of the negroes were burned by the soldiers, who were wildaglY assisted by secession sympathisers." The New York World s Washington correspon• dent on th e 4 th says :—" A rebel officer, who de serted General Early's army, reports the cavalry forces operating in the valley up the river, numbers 8,000, under Ganerals Johnson and M'Causland. Early says he is determined to hold the valley at all hazards and has a force from 35,000 to 40,000, who are engaged thrashing wheat. He takes every bushel, besid es a t a x for l a b our performed, " Another Washington tele gram says :—" G e neral Early' s head-quarters are at Winchester, and a detachment of rebel cavalry is still on the line of the Beesa Railroad. The war department has assigned General Emery to command the 19th corps. General Hooker has been ordered to report at Washington without delay," The Washington correspondent of the New York Conzmercial Advertiser says It is understood an earnest appea l w ill b e made to the Pres id en t b y leading r e p u b l i cans to give GeneralM'Clellan a command. It i s urge d th at enlistmen t s to the num ber of 100,000 w ill b e secured in New Y or k. Th e impression ga i ns ground that Genera l H oo k er w ill have a most i mportant command. It i s b ecom i ng ap parent to the war department that the rebels are re. solved on a vigorous campaign on the Upper Potomac, and are reinforcing Gen. Early strongly. Early lass crossed the river with 35,000 men, and one', portion of hi s cava l ry from Hagerstown recrosse d the river. H e now holds Martinsburg and the surrounding co untry. " A Nash v i l l e (Tennessee) telegram of the 3 d says —" Gen. St oneman ' s raid along the M acon R a i lroad met with a g reat success in cutting t h e re b e l s ' li ne of communicatio n , and thus isolat i ng A t l an t a ; b ut I regret the n ecessity to add that one division of cavalry, while return i ng, met w i t h a ser iou s di saster. The Macon Railroad was torn up for 18 miles, the rails twisted, and the ties and bridges burned, and i t o r a g i n b y fi e a d y w o f i I e m 3 u ni c ei h n ; a w l u e the road rend ere d useless for mont h s to come . Return acbalpetpurrievdaate property large waggon be longing to rebel officers, and among other property r was Gen. Hood's papers, all of which fell into the hands of thcgeneral and his forces. Abou t this time the rebels, under lien. Ransom, attacked Gen. M'Cook, and a fight ensued, in which M'Cook's command was routed, and the greatest part captured. About 500 of the troops have reported at Marietta, and give fearful stories of loss, &c. The command, when starting, numbered about 3,200. General Al`Cook is reported killed." The New York Herald's correspondent at Atlanta says—" A few days since Gen. Stanley took quite a haul of prisoners by a ruse. A deep ravine ran from his lines to the left of the rebel skirmishers; along this he sent up a company of men, who got to the rear of a squad of rebels, and took them without losing a man. The Sixth Ohio Battery are in position in Gen. Hood's front, and are pouring one continuous stream of shot and shell upon the rebel lines and the city, The rebels reply vigor ously, trying to silence them. Our lines are now pretty well swung round Atlanta. The rebels have very formidable woliq is ouc hunt, which they can well defend with a small force fora considerable time. Their late defeats and heavy losses must have considerably reduced their army, besides hav ing a most demoralising effect upon them. In both fights they attacked us when not in position, and therefore at decided disadvantage, and in both fights they were repulsed with fearful slaughter. Should they persist in making their death stand here, Sherman will resort to his flanking move ments and cut off their Only line of communication and retreat, and thus completely destioying the rebel army in Tennessee." There were reports that General Forrest was at Atlanta under Hood ; while another rumour is that he died at Columbus, Mississippi, on the 22d of July, of lockjaw. Advices from New Orleans state that all the troops in New Orleans were suddenly sent up the on the 26th July. It was reported that the Confederates were ad vancing. on Morg3nsia, although it is not known thcse troops hcd gone to that place. By way of Havana we have advises from Vera Cruz to the 22d July. Skirmishes have taken place near Mexico city. Juarcz's forces had left Sean() for Monterey, whcra Megreti had joined Juar,•z. Maximilian has decreed the French code of laws. Brownsville and Texas whines state that the Fe derals had abandoned the whole frontier of Rio Grande, Cortinas is raising a large force by pay ing one dollar in gold per day to rebel deserters, me French threaten to blockade Matamoras. THE BELFAST RIOTS. road and the Falls-road, was the scene of a dreadful riot, the contending mobs using, not sticks and stones, but guns loaded with bullets. For half an hour the fir© was kept up between the mobs, who did not show a spark of cowardfce on either side. Volley after volley roared along the street; the rapid discharge and whirr of the bullets as they rushed past, the shouting of the mobs, and the cool determination with which they stood at their posts, made up a scene absolutely thrilling in a civilised town. Several people were injures with bullets. Those belonging to the Pound side had to be taken to the General hospital, two of them having their legs amputated at the present time, and many received wounds from balls and slugs, and were carried home. The Protestant party, so far as we learn, were uninjured, except in one instance. Another fearful rencontre took place on the Falls-road, and it is said that the Catholic party fired from the windows of Hughes's bakery, and wounded several, who, it is alleged, were about to wreck the estab:ishment. That part of the town is in a state of the greatest excitement, and no busi ❑ess is being done. A large mob of men and women from the Sandy row district, assembled at an early hour this morn ing opposite the Ulster Railway, with the object of pouncing upon any unfortunate navvy who thought it his own interest to leave the town. As soon as any person suspected of being connected with the Catholic mobs made his appearance ; a yell was set up and he was belaboured ,unmercifully by the crowd in waiting. Some parties were chased for their lives trAci succeeded with getting off with only a few bruises. A lot of fellows waited at the station the arrival of the nine o'clock train, when some individuals apparently about to proceed to the harvest in Eng land and Scotland, were set upon and beaten with sticks and stones. One man, who bad been severely injured by the mob, was sent to the General Hos pital by Chief Constable M'Kittrick. We have been informed . by two gentlemen who were witnesses to the outrage committed at the rail- way station that not a solitary policeman was to be seen while they were going on. We understand that the reason of these brutal attacks upon labourers coming by the trains is, that a rumour has gone abroad that the Roman Catho- lies expect assistance from Dublin and Tipperary. Shortly after the assault upon the persons at the station a party of police patrolled in the neighbour hood. Last night, in the course of a riot at Wilsons street, both military and police were ordered to fire upon the mobs. Several persona were severeiy in jured in consiquence. 'the magistrates seem determined to exercise very stringent measures for the future, and to-day bodies of constabulary are continually patrolling the streets and preventing as much as possible the assembling of crowds. There ere now 37 cases in the hospital. Two men are on the point of death. So far as we can learn there are upwards of 100 cases of injuries from gunshot wounds attended to by private medical ;nen. During the day a large reinforcement of consta- - bulary is e.upected from the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The whole constabulary force now in town is under the command of Major Elmonde, Deputy Inspector General, who arrived last night from Dublin. About 260 of the 78th Highlanders arrived in town het night. DUBLIN, Wednesday. The navvies and the Orange ship carpenters did not come into collision yesterday. The former were not to be seen, but the latter, hearing that the Dublin coal porters were to arrive in Belfast to Help their co-religionists, awaited the evening train in great force, about 1,000 strong, and all armed, determined to attack them. The report happily turned out false. The magistrates swore in a number of special constables yesterday, and took possession of all the gunpowder in the shops. About 60 persons were shot, and the mobs had to be separated at the bayonet point. The respec table inhabitants want the town placed under martial law. Dr. Dorrian has called on the Ro man Catholics to avoid rioting, All business is suspended. DUBLIN, Wednesday Afternoon. The rioting continues furious. The military and the constabulary fired last night upon the people. Many were wounded dangerously. Thirty-seven are is the hospital. Above a hundred are under private medical treatment. Harvest men coming by the trains were sadly maltreated, under the idea that they came to assist the Catholics. Both parties fought, vvishaut the slightest cowardice, with slug and bullet charged guns. Several limbs were amputated. The authorities arc at length acting vigorously. The constabulary are under the command 01 Major Esmond. DUBLIN, Thursday, One o'clock. Belfast quieting. At six o'clock last evening a serious collision took ,place between ship carpenters and navvies. The latter were forced into mud-banks in the harbour, and were fired upon from the banks of the river by the Orange party. Nine or ten re ceived gun-shot wounds, avid one is reported dead. Their appearance, up to the neck in mud, was truly heartrending. THE FRENCH DITTO TO " How's YOUR POOR FEET ?"—One feature of the fete -was the starting of a new and unmeaning cry—"As-tu vu Lambert ?"---which seemed to create great amusement, and in which some people de tect a political signification. It is something of the same kind as the inquiry about "poor feet," which used to bo so popular in London. (From the Second Edition of the _Northern Whig.) BELFAST, Wednesday, 12.30 P.M. The present disastrous riws continue, and more people have bsen injured and maimed with bled.. geons, and fired at, and perhaps killed with gunshot wounds. The riots were renewed this morning in the dis turbed districts, unabated in their terrible nature, and with similar terrible consequences. Five more men have been taken to the General Hospital weltering. in their blood. Two of them ere not likely to survive —indeed, it is said, cannot survive the injuries they have received. About four o'clock this morning the rioters made ready for another day's campaign. Similar out rageous scenes to those we have daily described oc curred, but with even more terrible determination and deadliness of purpose. The mobs met in several instances and belaboured each other with the fury of savages. Dover-street, which runs between the Shankill- The Fortress of Tarifa, The Foreign OffiC9 has received the subjoined official communication from the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affe'lrs to her Mqjesty's Minister at Madrid with zeepect to vessels passing the fortress of Tarifa I " St. Ildefonso, July 31. " Sir,--Having informed the Minister of - War of the exertions made upon different occasions by 1 certain foreign Ministe rs accre di te d to th i s Court, with the object of i n t ro d uc i ng come favourable modification of the r egu l a ti ons o b serve d b y the for , tresses of Tarifa and Isla Verde to oblige the vessels sailing in the jurisdictional waters of those fortresses to hoist the flag of their nation—a practice which they often neglect, alleging an ignorance scarcely credible in vessels who so often cross the Straits— the above-mentioned Minister replied on the 21st tilt. that cn that day the following instructions had been sent to tie Captain General of Acdalusia, under whose immediate orders the fortresses of Tarifa and Isla Verde are placed, which for the future are to guide the commanders of the said fortresses : " 1. Every vessel crossing the line of the said forts within reach of their guns, and not showing the flag of their nation when the flig of the fort is fly ing, shall be warned of the neglect it is guilty of by means of eannon loaded with powder only. " 2. If after ten minutes she does not hoist her flag, a shot with ball shall be fired across her bows. " 3, If in spite of the two warnings, and after ten minutes more, she still refuses to hoist her fig, a third shot with ball shall be fired at her rigging. —I avail, &c., " S. F. PACHECO." The Metropolis Roads. A copy of the following letter, addressed by Sir George Grey to the Earl of Lonsdale, has been ordered to be sent to each Commissioner of the Metropolis roads : Whitehall, July 19, My Lord,—l have much satisfaction in expressing to your lordship the great value which her Majesty's Govern ment attach to the service which has been rendered to the public by the Commissioners of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads north of the Thames, over whom your lordship has so long and so usefully presided. From their 38th report, recently laid before Parliament, it appears that since the appointment of the commission in 1827 the heavy debt, amouuting to upwards of L 120,000, which was secured upon the tolls, has been entirely liquidated, and that, besides pro viding for the ordinary repairs of the roads, the commis sioners have further expended upwards of £60,000 in diffe rent improvements, and have been enabled from time to time to remove the turnplie gates to a greater distance from the metropolis, thus preparing am way for carrying into effect the provisions of the act of last session, in pursuance of which, from the ISt of the present mouth, all the reads under the charge of the commissioners within the limits of the Metropolis Local Management Act have been trans ferred to the parishes in good repair, the tolls extinguished, and the gates removed. I request your lordship to accept, and to convey to the commissioners, the assurance of the high sense which her Majesty's Gov ernment entertain of their successful manage ment of the business to which they have gratuitously de voted so much time and attention, The great benefit which has resulted from the service thus rendered by your lord. ship and your colleagues in the commission cannot fail to be duly appreciated by the public.—l have, &c., The Earl of Lonedale, K,G., &c. G, GREY, Modern Naval Wounds, M. Dufour, a surgeon of the French navy, has published an interesting account of the wounded seamen who were brought to the naval hospital at Cherbourg atter the engage ment between the Alabama and the Kearsarge. Of 15 men, 1 is dead, 2 remain in a dangerous state, the others, favoured by a strong constitution and the great care with shich they were attended in the hospital, are recovering. For some days victors and vanquished lying near each o' her in the same room forgot the civil diecord of which they were the victims. They were visited with the same solicitude and the same humanity by the officers of the ship which sun vived the engagemen'. One of the first remarks suggested by reading M. Dufour's statement is that the greater num ber of the wounds were caused ILA by cannon shot or shell, but by splinters from the ship. It has been observed by naval surgeons that since the use of shells in naval engage ments the destruction of human life has been greater than when round shot alone was used. It has been learnt from the same sea engagement that it is an error to suppose that the plating of wooden ships protects the crew from the splinters scattered about. The still increas ing calibre of the guns used in modern warfare requires a greater number cf meu to serve them, and it follows that one shot may cause more destruction by striking a compact group of men. This was the case on board the Alabama. A shell fired from the Kearsage falling among 19 men who were serving one of the Alabama's guns killed or wounded 15. The Alabama fired altogether 270 shots, of which the greater number were fired from howii z , :rs, There were but 163 shots fired by the Kearsage. Nobody appears to have teen killed by the round shot—all the injury was inleted nireetly or indirectly by the shells. The captain of the Kearsage very soon ceased firing from his four 32-pounders, which produced little effect, and used his two 11-inched howitzers and, a rifled 20-pounder placed forward. The victory was gained by these three pieces alone. THE LATE MR. C. W. DILKE.—Tho remains of the late Mr. C. W. Dilke were consigned yesterday to the family vault at Kensal- green Cemetery. The funeral was strictly private, attended only by members of the family and two or three old intimate friends, among whom we may mention Messrs. John Forster, Hepworth Dixon, and W. J. Thorne. The last number of Notes and Queries con • tains the following well deserved tribute to the memory of the deceased:—" In the death of Charles Wentworth Mike, DT, Notes and Queries has sustained a great loss ; for among the many able writers who have from time to time contributed to its pages, no one has enriched them with so many valuable papers illustrative of English. history and literature as he whose death it is now our painful duty to record. • Mr Dilke was one of the truest hearted men, and kindest friends it has ever been our good fortune to know, He died on Wednesday last, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. The distinguishing feature of his character was his singular love of truth, and his sense of its value and importance, even in the minutest paints and questions of literary'history. In all his writings the enforcement of this great principle, as the only foundation of literary hon our and respectability, was his undeviating aim and object. What the independence of English literary journalism owes to his spirited exertions, clear judgment, and unflinching honesty of purpose, will, wo trust, bo told hereafter by an abler pen than that which now announces his deeply la mented death." ROYAL:GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The annual exodus from the metropolis dons not daunt the, enterprising manager of the Gallery of Illustration, for he advertises the closing of his present excellent entertainment, and the commencement of a mw one at the same time. The season will terminate on the 27th instant, when the "Pyramid," the "Bard and his Birthday," and the new story of the " Seaside " will be withdrawn, to be followed on the following Monday by a new opera di camera, or ballad operetta, by MrlV. Balfe, which will re-introduce the " Jessy Lea" company, with the exception of a new soprano, a Miss Finlayson, of whom we have heard some favourable reports. POST-OFFICE BLUNDER.—About half a league from the town gates of Konigsberg, in Prussia, is a place called Jerusalem. A resident gentleman there has just received a letter which the commissary of his district had addressed to him two years ago. It appears that tha let ter had been sent to the holy Land, and had afterwards mile nearly the tour of the world. LITERATURE. O'Dowd's Good Humoured Philosophy. Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women, and other things an general. One vol. pp, 299. Blackwood and Sons, Another glorious serial from Blackwood's Moga • zinc is here before us, collected together and pub lished separately. It is the cheeriest ?et of chapters— about (slightly altering its own sub-title) all things in general and nothing in particular—that any blase student of light literature, as it is for the most part nowadays, could reasonably desire. In the mere style of it, there is freshrsess if not absolute origina lity. The writer of these pages has sat dawn to their composition in apiearcntly tip-top spirits. If he does really happen, in spite of all appearances hero to the contrary notwithstanding—to be, even to a seocicrete extent, a victim to the ir na;rims, otherwise to the blue devils born of dyspepsia, he hes the :happiest knack sone•how :of hiding his efiliction from the reader's ken altogether, and en titles himself indubitably, in that case, to the delight ful repute of being the most thoroughly amiable and sweet-tempered of valetudinarians. Judging here merely from the manner of the man, however, we should be disposed to picture him to ours selves as a compound of all sorts of delect able contradictions or incongruities. In this wise —to begin with--Cornelius O'Dowd is manifestly an unmistakeable Man-of-the-world, one who has seen a good deal of the ins and outs of life, who has seen them, moreover, with his eyes wide open, who has, in his time, had quite enough and to spare of town life, who has very closely and critically examined for himself (to adopt a happy phrase from an essayist in the Cornhill i " the wrong side of the stuff," all the tags and rags and bobtails of that motley embroi dery, the Social System ! And who, nevertheless, has emerged from it all, from this town life, from these wanderings behind the scenes, from these strayings even into the holes and corners, as one may say, of modern civilisation—a creature, to the last, entirely genial in his spirits, in his nature, in his whole temperament, and not the least bit in the world of a curmudgeon ! In other words, Cornelius O'Dowd may be set down at once—as a min of the world— unspoilt by his worldly wisdom ! In his idiocyn cracy ho was evidently, upon setting out in life, a right good fellow. And—he is so still. He was so in the green leaf. He is so—if Mrs. O'Dowd will but forgive us for hinting as much—now that the once glistening., dustless green leaf gives indica tions of crisping into the " sere and yellow." And, seeing all this in Cornelius O'Dowd, we have a kinds ness for him. The glint of the gray hsirs sown, here and there, about his head and in his whiskers, in stead of deteriorating the gloss of those hirsute honours of Cornelius O'Dowd's—on the contrary, seems, in a manner, to enhance it, as it were, by a last finishing touch of grace as with a crowning sheen or halo! The crowsfeet at the outer-corners of his blithe eyes, come to him loss, one might say, from years than from frequent laughter or consti tutional merriment. His paramount characteristic is his bonhommie. His bearing towards the world at large, is very much indeed of the " Hail fellow well met !" Nay—more than that—he himself,one might say, is a hale fellow, and one, here, in these pages, decidedly well met ! Read ing him, it is as if, in answer to his summons, we had got our slippered feet at ease under his maho gany in a pleasant tjte ci tae, sipping bumpers of his old crusted, cracking the ripest filberts culled from his own nut-walk, dipping the milky kernels of them in the attic salt of his wit, and—it is surely needless to say, after this thoroughly enjoying ourselves the while—when listening to his hilarious prattle ! A prattle, too, it is—about the chiefest charm of which is its dis cursiveness! Echoing our own preliminary phrase for it, it is so much (to be plain, in about one-and-thirty distinct chapters, or divisions) of " Good Humoured Philosophy" Cornelius O'Dawd's, to wit—" Upon Men and Women and Other Things in General!' Cornelius's Mordan, or Perry, twittering as lightly as any feather —say as one of the grey goosequills of the author's earlier youth —upon themes as che quered as—(like Elia's Mrs. Batt' e—with a diffe rence I) on " The Decline of Weist"—as (like Mr. Babbage or Mr Bass—also, with a diffaence !) on "The Organ NuisancP—on " Clubs" and "Lin guists"—on " A New Hansard'' and " A New In vestment"—on " The Ddeiine of the. Drama" and the swarming of " Garibaldi's Worshippers," Various as may be the opinions of Cornelius O'Dawd upon Men and Women and Othcr Things in General, it is certain, all the while, that he entertains no mean opinion of one individual in particular, namely, the important subject of his first paper yclept "My self I" Here, in proof of this, aro his qualifications in full— " You may deem me boastful if I have to set forth my qualifications ; but what can Ido ? It is only when I have openod my pack and displayed my wares that you may feel tempted to buy. lam driven, then, to tell you that I know everybody that is worth knowing in Europe, and some two or three in America ; that I have been everywhere—eaten of everything—seen everything. There is not a railway guard from Norway to Naples doesn't grin a recognition to me ; not a waiter from the Trois Freres to the Wilde Mann doesn't trail his napkin to earth as he sees me. Ministers speak up when I stroll into the Chamber, and prima donnas soar above the crohestra, and warble in ecstasy as I enter the pit." With such a cicerone no wonder the book is filled with adventure and amusement. One of the early chapters " A friend of Gioberti" gives a whimsical account of the O'D)wds' honeymoon expedition to the Continent when an Italian Count, and friend of Gioberti, gives Mr. and Mrs. O'D. the benefit of some Italian lessons. The upshot being that he (Gioberti's Friend that is) gives the unconscious lady some Italian loredetters to endite by way of exorcises, and then disposes of them at a heavy sum to the credulous husband. An explanation ensues thereupon, of course, between the lady and gentle • man, but " the friend of Gioberti" has departed with his compensation. Altogether this book penned by Cornelius O'Dowd, of O'Dowd's Folly, in the county of Mayo, Ireland, is as exhilarating a volume as one could wish to have bad issued from the press, in the very nick of time, upon the eve of one's holiday excursion—no matter whither ! Precisely the very book of books to drop into one's valise as a fill.up for:xtray moments when lounging in the corner of a railway carriage or when sprawling at greater ease apon the cabin sofa of a stcamboat—stray moments when, without the fatigue of talking, one enjoys so completely through a baok, just such an intellectual companionship as that of Monsieur, Signor, Herr, D3a Cornelius O'Dawd—this travelling Irishman,who talks wherever:he goes, we may be certain of that, Spanish, German, Italian, French, it matters nothing which, but each and all of them with the one unmistgkeable Mayo accent! Not a high-flAvoured, broad-spreading accent like that of tri.e dreadful Patland-widow in George Meredith's "Emilia in England," what that arch humorist hims7.lf dubs " pickled Irish"— but a very delectable, an easily detectable taste of the brogue —a taste of th© brogue, let us say, caught frotn a just casual lick of the Blarney Stone! And, so baying, let us here cheerily —as, in truth, alone beCs a — reader who stands indebted to his autb)r for many a gey, nay often, too, fir many a wise and wholesome laugh—let us here cheerily bid a c3rdiA adieu to Cornelius O'Dowd, of Dowd's Fully aforesaid, the me rr y ey e d, f ran k speakn e g, open-handed owner ( a l as ! l ute owner) of liilreuraynabaehlisb, Ballagby an d Gre naslat fiery. PRINCESS'S THEATitE.—='Mr Edward Thompson, who has been Connected for many years with the box-office of this theatre, has announced his annual benefit for this evening.. The performances will consist of "I3orr to Good Luck " and the new drama called the " The Streets of London." The z - Ril and courtesy with which Mr Thorny son uniformly discharges the duties of his office give him the strongest claims upon the patronage of the public, who it is to be hoped will show their sense of his merits on the present occasion. MADAME TUS SAUD'S.—SeveraI new figures have been lately added to the celebrated Historical Gallery in Baker-street, among which we would call special attention to that of Richard 11, and his Queen Isabella ; also Henry IV. and his Queen Joan of Navarre, and Henry VI. and his Queen Margaret of Anjou—all being attired in the costly costumes of their respective periods. A full-length mode! of Archbishop Wickham, in magnificent ecclesiastical robes, Sz.., is likewise to In seen. •,...c.. ~.4 4 .* , , I. ~. (.611 r v t I'7= ---- liiM YLI, -,--:-,--tuir'z,. HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 17. The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse walled and drove in the grounds yesterday. Lady Portman, extra Lady of the Bcdcha►nbar to the Queen, has arrtVed at Osborne, and sac.. needed Viscountess Jocelyn in waiting. Lord Portman has aleo arrived. Lo:d and Lady Portman had the honour of dining with the cneen and Rcyal Emily. Foreign Courts. PARIS, Aug, 16. On the occasion of the Emperor's/de their Ma jesties received at the Tuileries the respects of the Princess Ylathilde, of the Princes and PzineessEe of the family of the Emperor having rank at Court, and of those not hiving this rank. The Ministers and members of Privy Councils, the marshals and admirals sojourning at Paris, the grand officers of the Crown, and other officials also presented their respects to their Majesties. At noon a mass, fol lowed by a Tc Poem, was celebrated at the Cis" psi of the Tuileries, in presence of their Majesties, the members of the Imperial family, the ,superior officers of State, and other persons. The King of Spain, who left Bourdeux at ten o'clock yesterday morning, arrived at the St. Cloud station at nine o'clock in the evening. The train stopped at the entrance of the park, where the Emperor was awaiting th e arr iv a l of his 1 0 .Y ai gtiebt. The Empress and the Prince Imperial, sur-. rounded by the Prince and Princess Lucien Murat, the Prince and Princess Joachim Mu rat ' and the Princess Anna Murat, received the 1(113g at the entrance of the gra n d s t a i rcase . The grea t officers of the Crown, the marshal comma ndant-l a ; chief of the Imperial G uar d, th e adjutant-gen er4 , of the palace, a nd man y mem b ers o f t h e Imperi al household were present, and were presented to Ls Majesty, who, before retiring to his apartments, presented the officers` of his suite to the Emperor and Empress. The P r i n c ess M a thild e was unab le to be present on account of a slight indisposition. THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO DENMARK.—The contemplated visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Denmark is exPe cteci , to take place on or a b o ut th e 2d o f S eptem b er . Their roy al highne ses will be accompanied by a limited mite, and the port of embarcation will, it is understood, be a northern one, probably Aberdeen. PRINCE ALFRED'S VISIT TO NORWAT.--Zle ob' ject of the prince's visit to Norway was to enjoy a few days srdmon fishing upon the w a t e r s l ease d by the Duke of 11° f .11 burghe, which extend over th ree m il es . The angling th is season has been exceedingly good. A few days ag° the Racoon, having on board the prince and Duke of 1 01 ' burghe, left Norway on a visit to icelend. The Rac °°3 will return home about the beginning of September. PRINCE NAPOLEON IN GLASGOW.-0 0 Monday evening Prince Napoleon and suite a rrived in Glasgow, and put up at the George Hotel, Georga-s In the early part of Tuesday th e P r i nce d ro ve to Hamilton, and, afterwards retu rn i ng to th e c i ty, h e visited the 1,1"' cb..;nge and one or two of th e p r i nc i pa l places of b usines• His imperial highness l e ft Gl asgow b y an afternoo n train, and it is understood that he proceeds on a visit to Stirling, but his future movem en t s are un k nown . The princ e trav e l : . with the utmost privacy, an d a pp ea rs anxious to avoid public recognition. Prince Prozorowsky Galiizin has arr ived at Maurigy's Hotel from St Petersburg. qua re. Sir Hugh Cairns, Lady Cairns, and family have arrived at Rohallion Lodge, Dunkeld, for the season. His Excellency Monsieur Autoaio Flores, reEi dent Minister from the Equador at London and Paris, has loft 101aurigy's Hotel for Rome. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi have left Chandos House for Rich mond, where they contemplate passing several weeks. Count Alexander Apponyi and other attaches remain ill town. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington will arrive at his grace's shooting quarters in the Highlands this week, Iruundiately after the Lord Chief Justice's official duties have terminated ho wilt join his grace and party in &fit land. Lady Gerald F . ozerld is recovering from her severe illness. His Excellency the Hon. G. S. Jerninghsin has left Maurigy's Hotel for Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire, 'en a visit to Lord Lovat, The Right Hon. Frederick Peel and Mrs. Peel entertained a considerable number of the right hon. gentle man's political supporters on Tuesday at his country seat Hampden-in-Ardcn. DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF CEYLON.---"We have to record the death of Sir Charles Tuston M'Carthy, Governor of Ceylon, which occurred at the Spa Belgium, to which place he was on a visit for the benefit his health, on Sunday last. The deceased, who was the son of the late Mr Denis M'Carthy, of Cork, was born in 1820, and was married in 1848 to Sophia Brunel, eldest daughter or Sir Benjamin Hawes, K.C.8., Under-Secretary of State for War. In 1856 he was nominated by Lord John Russell. who was at that time Colonial Se cr e tar y , to the office of Colonial Secretary in Ceylon, and in the following year re ceived the order of Knighthood. In 1860 he was appointed by the Duke of Newcastle, who was then Colonial Secretary, to the post of Governor and Commander-in - Chief and Vice- Admiral of Ceylon, which he held up to the time of his death. The nomination to the governorship, which is of considerable value, falls to the Right Hon. Edward Card well, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies. THE BIRTH OF THE SEWING MACHINE.—Our mechanicians should have perfected the sewing machine. The land that invented the steam engine and tha power-loom, ought, in the ordinary nature of things , to have crowned its work by the final device which was to sew to gether the textile fabrics its cunning mechanics had so deftly woven, Indeed, an Englishman did a clever mechanical arrangement for embroidery purposes, which absolutely in cluded some of the most important parts of the first practi cal sewing machine; but he actually did not recognise the fact that he was just touching a contrivance that would have made his fortune. This inventor, Mr John Foster, of Not tingham, was a very young man, only nineteen, when he first contrived his embroidery machine, and in conjun ction with his moneyed partner, Mr Gibbons, in December, 1811. brought it into pracical use. Yet neither of them could see that the road they had fairly entered upon, if fdlowed up, would inevitably have led to fame and wealth. Their machine to them was an embroiderer, and nothing niece, although Mr Fothergill, in a paper read at the Society ot Arts last year, states that he saw this very machine sew most effectually ; indeed, by the use of needle and shuttle, it produced a lock-stitch of precisely the same character as those now in use. No progress was made with this ma chine further than to employ it in embroidery, and the patents were not extended. It is supposed that the seeds o' , this invention, however, were not altogether lost; so me workmen of the original patentee, it is said, proceeded to America, and there they disseminated the original ides.-- Chico a Week. THELEEDS LOCK OUT.—A statement and balan ce sheet ens been iz, , sued by the ironworkers of th e Leeds district. The writ ers say: —" O ur di spu te has "W extended over a period o f 16 weeks, our hopes of a sp ee dy settlement and still the hor i zo n oft is as gloomy as ever. There are a few wh o h ays f orsaken our ra nk s and hav e be come the willin g s l aves o f the i r employers, b ut by no me ans to the extent t o a ff ect the question in the slightes t de g ree ' and the me n i n a b ody continue as fi rm , a nd, if possib le, more resolute th an ever to con ti n ue the struggle until the employer s are di spose] to take d ow n their declaration. 140 have done our u t mos t t o bring about a settlement of this dispute, but all of no avail. We s ou g ht and obtained ad.. vica from Mr G. Beecroft, one of the members for the borough of Leeds, which was very excellent, and which we could not but act upon ; but the masters did not recipro cate the peaceable overtures and reasonable terms of t. 130, men. Only let the declaration to taken down, and pledge ourselves to do our utmost to promote order among our selves, proper subordination to our superiors, and to guard the interests of our employers. Sixteen weeks have passed , and still the code of elavery hangs from the walls of the seven forges. It remains in spit e of p u blic opinion an d private remonstrance, in spite of the press, ministers o f re ligion, and public epcak ers —i n spite, indeed, of all wh o are friends of liberty. The attempt on the part of the Leeds masters to destroy our power of combination has onl y strengthened our and lit erty of the wor k ieg men o f E ng l an d is only th eir won so long Principles, and shown ue that the free dom as they combine and co-operate to aid one another." The contributora to the strike fund are then thanked for their noble assistance and support, which bad enabled 10s and 14s a week per head to bo distribu ted to the workpeople lock e d ou t. Th e balance shows tha t the total receipts up to August 8 have teen £11,588, of which the Gateshead Executive Committee have contributed £5,923-- the Brierly_hill Executive Committee, £I,BS5 —and to s the, Millmen's Association, Westbrornwich , £650. The. number of members rec e iving pay from the society is set down at 1,400, an d reso l ut i ons , the document s tates, , / ittio been passed to hold meetings in the principal tev.r .t as in country to give information upon the subje et of e 6 ta a Tad to solicit aid